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Valley of the Dolls

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Valley of the Dolls (1967)

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Reviews Counted:23

Fresh:9

Rotten:14

Average Rating:4.7/10

Runtime: 2 hrs 4 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom... Film adaptation of Jacqueline Susann's melodramatic, bestselling potboiler. The story tracks the lives of three women -- naive New Englander Anne Welles, aspiring singer Neely O'Hara, and buxom beauty Jennifer North -- as they attempt to achieve fame and fortune in Hollywood. But as each starlet either rises to the top or falls to the bottom, she discovers that Hollywood is full of pitfalls and heartbreak. Instead of the happiness they seek, the trio finds only alcoholism, wild sexcapades, tantrums, porno roles, suicide, marital woes, wigs in the toilet, and a dependence on "dolls" -- slang for pills. Which of these ingenues will survive her "trip" through Hollywood? [More]

Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward

Starring: Sharon Tate, Patty Duke, Barbara Parkins, Susan Hayward, Martin Milner, Charles Drake, Alexander Davion, Lee Grant, Naomi Stevens, Robert H. Harris, Richard Dreyfuss, Linda Timmerman

Director: Walter Grauman

Director: Walter Grauman
Producer: David Weisbart
Screenwriter: Helen Deutsch, Dorothy Kingsley
Composer: John Williams

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Jun 13, 2006

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You won’t want to miss a word of the deliciously bad dialogue in this Hollywood tale of twisted sisters.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
03/10/03
Marjorie Baumgarten
Marjorie Baumgarten
Austin Chronicle

It's an okay premise, but it still is weighted down with so much of the 60s that I find it hard to relate.

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07/19/06
Kevin Carr
Kevin Carr
7M Pictures

It's an unbelievably hackneyed and mawkish mish-mash of backstage plots and Peyton Place adumbrations.

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05/09/05
Bosley Crowther
Bosley Crowther
New York Times
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It tries to raise itself to the level of sophisticated pornography, but fails. And it is dirty, not because it has lots of sex in it, but because it firmly believes that sex is dirty.

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10/23/04
Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
Chicago Sun-Times
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Oh, it's a bad movie, but in a good way.

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01/01/00
MaryAnn Johanson
MaryAnn Johanson
Flick Filosopher

Too dull even to function as camp.

Full Review Source: Chicago Reader | comment Comment
10/17/07
Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
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Based on Susann's steamy bestseller, this delightfully absurd and lurid saga of three girls in "corrupt and corrupting" Hollywood has become a cult classic due to its memorably campy lines.

Full Review Source: EmanuelLevy.Com | comment Comment
06/27/06
Emanuel Levy
Emanuel Levy
EmanuelLevy.Com

Rent it and howl.

Full Review Source: Austin Chronicle | comment Comment
10/17/07
Stephen Macmillan Moser
Stephen Macmillan Moser
Austin Chronicle

You'll need some kind of a pill to sit through this soap opera dreck.

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05/01/02
Dennis Schwartz
Dennis Schwartz
Ozus' World Movie Reviews

A lurid '60s sensation

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05/29/06
Don Willmott
Don Willmott
Filmcritic.com

Jacqueline Susann's 'exposé' of Hollywood gets the cliché-ridden treatment it deserves from Robson.

Full Review Source: Time Out | comment Comment
01/26/06
Time Out
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The choice of Mark Robson, a talented Hollywood journeyman director, for this piece of nonsense was inspired.

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10/17/07
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Pure trash, based on a trashy book, filled to the brim with trashy performances, now becoming a trashy cult film.

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Variety
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Absolute trash, but not without its cult appeal.

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03/05/03
Jeffrey M. Anderson
Jeffrey M. Anderson
San Francisco Examiner

At the time sordid, now blase look at drug-infested Hollywood.

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03/14/09
Steve Crum
Steve Crum
Video-Reviewmaster.com

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08/12/03
Jules Brenner
Jules Brenner
Cinema Signals

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04/09/04
Carol Cling
Carol Cling
Las Vegas Review-Journal

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02/24/04
Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

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02/18/07
Jake Euker
Jake Euker
F5 (Wichita, KS)
 
 
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